photo: Matteo Maffesanti, Fabio Sau, Riccardo Panozzo
GRACES
The performance is part of the official Opole Dance Stage 2025 program.
Graces is a project inspired by The Three Graces, a sculpture created by Antonio Canova between 1812 and 1817. The work draws from mythology: Zeus’ three daughters – Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia – radiated splendour, joy and prosperity.
Three male figures take the stage in a space and time suspended between the human and the abstract: a place where male and female meet without roles and dance to the rhythm of nature itself. On stage there are three male performers together with the author Silvia Gribaudi, who likes to define herself as ‘author of the body’ because her poetics elevates imperfections to an art form with a direct, cruel and empathetic comic style without any boundaries among dance, theater and performing arts.
Over the past ten years, Silvia Gribaudi has been questioning gender stereotypes, female and male identities and the concept of virtuosity in dance and daily life, expanding beyond clichés and appearances.
Graces was realised thanks to the critical, visual and directorial support of Matteo Maffesanti (director, social theater operator and videomaker) who followed through the entire artistic process with Silvia Gribaudi, with several working phases involving workshops for local people inspired by the choreographic material developed in the project.
Winner of Danza&Danza 2019 award ‘italian production of the year’
Winning CollaborAction#4 2018/2019
Finalist Rete Critica 2019 award
Selected by NID Platform 2019
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Fragmenty powieści „Instytut” Jakuba Żulczyka/ (c) Jakub Żulczyk/Syndykat Autorów
– Agencja Literacka i Scenariuszowa oraz wydawnictwo Świat Książki, Warszawa 2016
Athens Epidaurus Festival
Grape Showcase
JULY 19TH 2024
Scena
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JK OPOLE THEATRE / ODS 2025
date
september 25th 2025
stage
the large stage
duration
60 mins
suggested age
8+
Please be advised: there is one scene
with partial nudity
UPCOMING DATES
25.09. / thursday
19.00
„(…) potrafi rozśmieszyć, a nieraz też skłonić do refleksji. Działa jak dobrze skrojone kino gatunkowe, z rozwiązaniami z którymi teatr, moim zdaniem, mógłby częściej eksperymentować”.
Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl
„(…) potrafi rozśmieszyć, a nieraz też skłonić do refleksji. Działa jak dobrze skrojone kino gatunkowe, z rozwiązaniami z którymi teatr, moim zdaniem, mógłby częściej eksperymentować”.
Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl
„(…) potrafi rozśmieszyć, a nieraz też skłonić do refleksji. Działa jak dobrze skrojone kino gatunkowe, z rozwiązaniami z którymi teatr, moim zdaniem, mógłby częściej eksperymentować”.
Henryk Mazurkiewicz, teatralny.pl
“Silvia Gribaudi’s GRACES […] is an homage to the poetic powers of imperfection. […] Within the framework of theatrical convention, Gribaudi attempts to trigger a change in our perspective through a down-to-earth attitude, by offering entertainment and inviting us to have fun”
Jordi Ribot, Thunnissen in Movement exposed
“In a relentless succession of dances, tableaux vivants
and comic scenes, the quartet seeks (and obtains) at all
times the complicity of the spectator, involving him in
a eulogy of imperfection and individuality. […] Among
intended afterthought, self-mocking celebrations, lyrical
interludes and unsettling suspensions, the clear awareness
that “beautiful is the place where the gaze rests” rises.”
Emanuela Zanon, Juliet Art Magazine
“A mocking trip to the automatisms of our imagination. […] The choreography appropriates with freedom the most trite female and male stereotypes to debunk them with a queer spirit.”
Gerrge Voudiklaris, Artivist chief editor
Festiwale i nagrody
- Nagroda za reżyserię dla Yulii Maslak podczas XXI Festiwalu Dramaturgii Współczesnej RZECZYWISTOŚĆ PRZEDSTAWIONA.
- Spektakl zajął 2. miejsce w głosowaniu publiczności podczas XXI Festiwalu Dramaturgii Współczesnej RZECZYWISTOŚĆ PRZEDSTAWIONA.
- Pokaz w ramach XXI Festiwalu Dramaturgii Współczesnej “Rzeczywistość przedstawiona” Zabrze 2022
creators
Choreography
Silvia Gribaudi
Dramaturgy
Silvia Gribaudi,
Matteo Maffesanti
Light Design
Antonio Rinaldi
Technical director
Luca Serafini
Technicians on tour alternately
Leonardo Benetollo,
Paolo Rodighiero,
Luca Serafini
Costumes
Eliza Alexandropoulou
Production
Zebra
Co-production
Santarcangelo Festival
Supported by
MiC – Ministero della Cultura,
Italian Ministry of Cultural Affairs
supported by
MiC – Ministero della Cultura,
Italian Ministry of Cultural Affairs
supported by
MiC – Ministero della Cultura, Italian Ministry of Cultural Affairs
performers
Silvia Gribaudi
and 3 performers alternately:
Matteo Marchesi,
Andrea Rampazzo,
Francesco Saverio Cavaliere,
Giacomo Citton,
Siro Guglielmi
Project realized with the contribution of ResiDance XL – luoghi e progetti di residenza per creazioni coreografiche, action of the network Anticorpi XL – Network Giovane Danza D’autore, coordinated by L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino e IntercettAzioni – Centro di Residenza Artistica della Lombardia – project by Circuito CLAPS with Industria Scenica, Milano Musica, Teatro delle Moire, Zona K.
Artistic residencies: ARTEFICI – Artisti Associati di Gorizia, Klap – Maison Pour la danse Marseille, Centro per la Scena Contemporanea/Operaestate Festival del Comune di Bassano del Grappa, Centro di Residenza Armunia/CapoTrave Kilowatt, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | La Corte Ospitale: Centro di Residenza Emilia-Romagna, Dansstationen, Danscentrum Syd, Skånesdansteater Malmö – Sweden.
CollaborAction#4 2018/2019 in collaboration with festivals and theatre seasons by Anticorpi, Ater, Interplay, Piemonte Dal Vivo, Amat, Arteven, Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, Artedanzae20, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, C.L.A.P.Spettacolodalvivo, Armunia, FTS Onlus.
Mecenasem spektaklu jest Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia.
